Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria - Volume 22 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

An incredibly long amount of time has passed since the last volume. To everyone who has been waiting for so long, I am truly sorry.

Long time no see. I’m Seiichi Takayama.

Anyway, this volume marks the end of the Nobunaga arc as well as the main story of The Master of Ragnarok. The entirety of the next volume will cover the story’s epilogue.

I started writing this story in January of 2013, and when I think about the fact that eight years later I’ve managed to make it to twenty-two volumes, I get really emotional. During that time, drama CDs, an anime, and all sorts of other things were produced as well, so yeah, super emotional.

Nevertheless, there are still two more volumes planned!

I think I mentioned it in another afterword somewhere, but I really love it when eroge include fan discs that imagine what happens after the plot resolves. While some may enjoy the typical Hollywood formula of the credits rolling right after the main conflict is resolved, I’m the type of person that enjoys seeing what happens to the characters after the story ends, so I think I want to write a bit about what happens after our heroes reach the New World. On that note, I’d be thrilled if you’d bear with me just a little longer.

I’d also like to release a brand-new work at the same time as one of the two New World volumes, so it’d be wonderful if you could pick that up as well (advertisement time!). Basically, the premise is “what if a guy like Skáviðr ended up with a loving wife and became happy?” Or rather, though I won’t be alluding to it in the story itself, this protagonist was actually Skáviðr in his previous life. Why, might you ask? Because I, Mr. Takayama, really, really liked Skáviðr as a character and wanted to give him another chance at happiness after he regretfully perished on the battlefield in The Master of Ragnarok.

Now then, I’m running out of pages, so to wrap things up, I’d like to give my thanks. To everyone that gave it their all in putting this book out in the world, thank you so much! To all you readers who purchased this book, my utmost gratitude!

May we meet again in the next volume!

Seiichi Takayama